The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

And since it’s Sunday and it’s a bright day outside of the window, I want to restart writing articles with something bright and funny … a satirical post about all the hype around technology that I’ve seen these months. The more the iPhone moments, the more I read articles saying that VR is dead.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. This is happening.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Bar-Zeev helped found and invent the core technologies behind HoloLens at Microsoft, assembling the company’s very first AR prototypes, demos and UX concepts. If the tweet below means anything, he probably won’t be heading to Facebook/Oculus anytime soon. A colleague wanted to chat on WhatsApp today.

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2016

Dawn Airey, Chief Executive Officer of Getty Images, spoke of the budding industry: “The technology is still in its infancy – as are the business models addressing how to use it – but we can expect to see VR become a leading tool for visual storytelling. All the sights and sounds of Rio, minus the smell.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2018

Most people think that the tracking technologies of both headsets offer the same performances. I also tried to go upstairs and downstairs and everything continued working, even in outdoor conditions, so kudos to both Google and HTC. But Google’s technology showed better performances over time.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

However, technological advancement has generated new opportunities to apply virtual reality to more than just video games. While technology is constantly changing in the digital world, it is crucial to investigate how advancement in technology can impact learning. Virtual reality has been a known concept for the past 32 years.

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Doc-Ok

OCTOBER 20, 2016

For one, measuring the user’s IPD and entering it into the VR software, either manually or through a sensor on a physical IPD adjustment knob or slider on the headset, as in both Vive and Oculus Rift, is an important component of creating convincing VR displays. I should have consulted the Googles back then. Alas, not so fast.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 8, 2016

The Getty Images Virtual Reality Group brings the very latest in photographic and video technology together with Getty Images’ 21 years of experience in visual storytelling, to offer exceptional content for existing and future VR platforms. High quality VR production is also being offered through Getty Images Assignments.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Watch YouTube in VR with your friends, Google pours resources into shared social VR experiences, upcoming standalone headsets will be wireless, the Snapchat vs. Facebook continues, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WATCH YOUTUBE IN VR… WITH YOUR FRIENDS!

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Computers weren’t as ubiquitous as they are now, so I was fortunate to have access to the technology and realized I could edit two clips together. Then, in 2012 they posted the video that would go viral and change everything for them. It was just magic to my eyes.”. Image Credit: SOKRISPYMEDIA.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Facebook acquired face recognition technology provider FacioMetrics to beef up the social network giant’s photo and video capabilities. In response to the acquisition, it appears that all of the startup’s apps have been removed from both the App Store and the Google Play store. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

Their facial tracking modification technology eventually enabled the popular “Lenses” feature. With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Anyone involved at the intersection of real estate and Virtual Reality has probably experienced a immersive walkthrough made with Matterport technology. Bell and I discuss what it was like founding the company, building the prototype and looking forward to Google Project Tango. How did Matterport come to be?

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Even though the technology has been around for years, the current generation of products and devices gets closer than ever to the VR’s original promise: getting elsewhere and connecting to whatever matters most to you. With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds. It is rumored that the Oculus team will spend a considerable amount of time discussing Project Santa Cruz at the event in California.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

Montreal-based Minority Media, which also created the groundbreaking PSN title Papo Y Yo in 2012, created the dinosaur undersea adventure game that launched on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets in May 2017. The headsets and the technology for continuous virtual worlds and the blockchain for ecommerce, all the pieces are here.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Even though the technology has been around for years, the current generation of products and devices gets closer than ever to the VR’s original promise: getting elsewhere and connecting to whatever matters most to you. With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily.

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HaptX

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

That was the topic of our conversation: How much would Ready Player One highlight or explain haptic technology? A search on Google Trends reveals more searches for “VR gloves” than “haptic gloves.” bought the script to Ready Player One back in 2010, two years before the Oculus Rift Kickstarter. VR Gloves become Haptic Gloves.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Without exception, everyone who hears about VR technology is interested on some level, and because of this and its many uses, some have already started using VR technology. Of course, it would be almost 600 years before the birth of modern VR technology and VR headsets). Intro to VR Development. . million USD in funding.

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VeeR VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In 2012 the only way to have experienced virtual reality was with a high-powered computer and headset. No price was announced but it is rumored to be the same cost as it’s North American equivalent Oculus Go at $199. Facebook announced a new VR headset, the Oculus Go at the Oculus Connect 4 keynote. 75 Hz refresh rate.

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2016

Matthew Magee ponders virtual reality’s potential impact on game development culture and how immersive technology may encourage a renaissance in independent, disruptive bedroom coders a.k.a In 2012, while still in China, he backed the Rift Kickstarter. more affordable avenues like GearVR and Google Cardboard. For all the.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented reality is a technology that allows us to superimpose digital information into the real-world environment. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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VRWorld

APRIL 17, 2017

The technology is largely the domain of gaming brands at present, inclusive of both casinos and traditional developers. Newzoo indicates that the eSports audience grew by a billion people a year from 2012, with values tipped to reach more than $1bn by the end of 2017. Live Casino.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

DJ Smith is the co-founder of The Glimpse Group, an XR technologies accelerator that’s doing startup incubating in a whole new way. NYVR hosts monthly events focused on virtual reality technology and the premiere venue for the industry networking collaboration within New York City. Alan: I think it’s wonderful.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

DJ Smith is the co-founder of The Glimpse Group, an XR technologies accelerator that’s doing startup incubating in a whole new way. NYVR hosts monthly events focused on virtual reality technology and the premiere venue for the industry networking collaboration within New York City. Alan: I think it’s wonderful.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

” The technology served as a visually rich shorthand for dystopian cyberpunk fears in an age of rapidly accelerating technology. For decades, the technology has felt ahead of its time, beginning with Sensorama in 1962. Sutherland, who is still around today at 85, contributed important technological innovations for decades.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

It’s been said on this show before; XR doesn’t have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? One is government.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

It’s been said on this show before; XR doesn’t have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? One is government.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

It's been said on this show before; XR doesn't have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Remember back in early 2012, when VR was just thought of as science fiction, or at best as a failed experiment of the 90’s? I remember 2012. And then the Oculus Kickstarter happened. And Oculus did hold on to that exclusivity for quite a while. That was 5 years ago. I know, right? Hell, my local grocery store has VR HMDs!

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. That grid’s share of all active OpenSim users has fallen from a high of 40 percent in the summer of 2012 to its current low of just 15 percent. But the next-most-popular grid, OSgrid, still has a long ways to go before it catches up.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 16, 2017

InWorldz has been the most popular grid every month from 2012 on, and had 5,276 active users last month. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. There’s no centralized way to find OpenSim grids, so if you don’t tell us about it, and Google doesn’t alert us, we won’t know about it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The VR industry today is likely not exactly what Brendan Iribe envisioned it would be back in 2012. At that time, Oculus had ambitions of releasing an affordable VR headset in the near future that would allow players to step into the game. In the short term, the new Oculus doesn’t sound all that different from the old one.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Traditionally based off of technological developments happening in the real world, some of the first movies with VR technology started coming out in the early 80’s when advancements in computer technology allowed research to begin on more affordable VR. TRON (1982). Arcade (1993).

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But if the people developing the technology don’t understand how kids’ brains learn, it’s not going to take, no matter how innovative. I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But if the people developing the technology don’t understand how kids’ brains learn, it’s not going to take, no matter how innovative. I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies.

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